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I Bake Games. Indie StyleWed, 25 Mar 2015 09:43:35 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.3.3By: SasQhttp://www.gameproducer.net/2006/04/08/chasing-two-rabbits/comment-page-1/#comment-35848
Wed, 24 Jan 2007 07:14:55 +0000http://www.gameproducer.net/2006/04/04/chasing-two-rabbits/#comment-35848The koan with rabbit means that you can’t go from one place to a two different directions at once [because you are one, and directions are two ;)]. You have to focus at one of them and go that way. But…
@Jams: Good point with his “chasing the one rabbit from two angles” ;)
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Mon, 30 Oct 2006 10:32:14 +0000http://www.gameproducer.net/2006/04/04/chasing-two-rabbits/#comment-17584[…] In the past I quoted a zen story where it basically says that “if you do too many things at once… nothing gets done”. I’ve been working on Edoiki and also with Morphlings. […]
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Tue, 03 Oct 2006 07:26:54 +0000http://www.gameproducer.net/2006/04/04/chasing-two-rabbits/#comment-13613[…] Guideline #5 – No too many issues in agenda Don’t take too many topics in one meeting. It’s better to focus on few things rather than chase many rabbits. Overbooked agenda can easily lead to too long meetings or bad results. […]
]]>By: the2bears.com » I’m Chasing Rabbitshttp://www.gameproducer.net/2006/04/08/chasing-two-rabbits/comment-page-1/#comment-952
Tue, 18 Apr 2006 06:57:23 +0000http://www.gameproducer.net/2006/04/04/chasing-two-rabbits/#comment-952[…] Yes, I’m chasing at least two rabbits. I’ve got multiple game projects on the go, some experiments with Nintendo DS and GameBoy Advance homebrew as well as a secret project of my own now. This can’t be a good omen for getting things done, can it? […]
]]>By: milieuhttp://www.gameproducer.net/2006/04/08/chasing-two-rabbits/comment-page-1/#comment-886
Wed, 12 Apr 2006 20:21:48 +0000http://www.gameproducer.net/2006/04/04/chasing-two-rabbits/#comment-886I think people are being a little too literal with the zen koan. Bear in mind…it’s zen. It’s not supposed to make sense! ;)

Yes, learning multiple fighting styles is an excellent way to improve your overall fighting. I personally advocate learning as many programming languages as you can. I learned more about C++ when I used languages like Java and Python.

The koan is all about knowing what you really want, and going after it rather than chasing a bunch of goals. The person above with the 120 rabbits? They won’t catch a single one, unless they specifically target that single rabbit, and chase it. Same thing with duck hunting…if you aim at a cloud of ducks, and pull the trigger, you get nothing. You have to select one duck, and aim at it.

For game industry careers…you need to decide what you want to do. Art? Programming? Design? Working for someone else? Doing it all yourself? Then once you’ve decided, go after that one rabbit.

]]>By: Jamshttp://www.gameproducer.net/2006/04/08/chasing-two-rabbits/comment-page-1/#comment-865
Sun, 09 Apr 2006 19:59:50 +0000http://www.gameproducer.net/2006/04/04/chasing-two-rabbits/#comment-865In reply to Jake Birkett, i’m an Aikido man too (although with a fraction of your experience). If your goal is the ‘inner peace’ you speak of, then yes dedicating yourself to one art is a good plan (this was the reason i settled on Aikido). Having said that, if my goal had been to learn to defend myself, i probably wouldn’t have chosen Aikido… I’m not saying there’s no cross over, i’m sure some boxers develop their spirit, and i *know* many Aikido ka who can kick ass… but you have to make the right decisions for your goal – as Juuso says, choose your rabbit :)
]]>By: Juuso - Game Producerhttp://www.gameproducer.net/2006/04/08/chasing-two-rabbits/comment-page-1/#comment-862
Sun, 09 Apr 2006 18:10:13 +0000http://www.gameproducer.net/2006/04/04/chasing-two-rabbits/#comment-862Jams: yes: ‘You have to ask yourself exactly what rabbit you’re chasing’.

Studying different programming languages all can help make you a better programmer: therefore the goal of being a ‘good programmer’ can be found through several different programming languages. On the other hand, if you want to be programmer and 3d artist then you must notice that learning 3D art takes time (which is away from being great programmer). So, choose your rabbit.

]]>By: Jake Birketthttp://www.gameproducer.net/2006/04/08/chasing-two-rabbits/comment-page-1/#comment-856
Sun, 09 Apr 2006 10:04:32 +0000http://www.gameproducer.net/2006/04/04/chasing-two-rabbits/#comment-856hmm, cross training *can* be useful, no doubt, if your only intention is to become a fighter with more flexibility (which Bruce Lee advocated with his style of no style). However, I’ve been doing Aikido for 9 years and I realise that I still know so little. So if you trained for 3 years in Judo and went up against someone who had trained for 20 years, you’d loose, probably even with the extra boxing skills. Jack of all trades master of none? Furthermore there is a lot of philosphy behind certain martial arts that you really only begin to appreciate after a long time. If you chop and change all the time you may never obtain the “inner peace” that is the ultimate goal.

However, when applied to programming it can go both ways. Using Blitz a lot helped my Delphi programming, I was solving problems different ways BUT I wanted to do Blitz so much that I let my Delphi contract work (which earned money) slip a lot.

]]>By: Jamshttp://www.gameproducer.net/2006/04/08/chasing-two-rabbits/comment-page-1/#comment-838
Sat, 08 Apr 2006 17:22:32 +0000http://www.gameproducer.net/2006/04/04/chasing-two-rabbits/#comment-838Actually i had some further thoughts about this, i think the true meaning of that Zen story is a bit deeper…

You have to ask yourself exactly what rabbit you’re chasing. Continuing the martial arts analogy… if the students aim was to become a great martial artist, then cross training in another style would still be relevent to his goal, he’d still be chasing that one rabbit, but from 2 different angles. However if he also decided to take up playing the flute, that deviates from his goal and he has a second rabbit!

With your game project Juuso, even if you started another, or perhaps even 2 more game projects… would you really be chasing multiple rabbits? Or just one rabbit from diffeent angles?

]]>By: Jamshttp://www.gameproducer.net/2006/04/08/chasing-two-rabbits/comment-page-1/#comment-837
Sat, 08 Apr 2006 17:12:50 +0000http://www.gameproducer.net/2006/04/04/chasing-two-rabbits/#comment-837The thing is, it’s widely accepted in the martial arts that cross training in more than one discipline is essential to be a well rounded fighter (for example, 3 years boxing and 3 years judo would make you someone to be reckoned with).

I would say to that ‘master’, it’s naive to think one person can teach you everything there is to know about a subject. He can only ever offer you one perspective…

To make that relevent, i have found that studying C# has had a big impact on my Blitz3D code…